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Report: Speed

5th April 2001, Page 8
5th April 2001
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• by Dominic Perry )

Motorists consistently break speed limits and drive under the influence of drugs, according to a new survey pubiished at the start of National Road Safety Week.

Ehe report, commissioned by motoring assisroe specialist Green Flag and funded by road afety campaign group Brake, comes as a Home lffice consultation aimed at cracking down on uch offences comes to an end.

Draft legislation which could see drivers anned for up to 10 years for a second serious riving offence is expected to allow later this year.

Launching road safety week nd Brake's "pledge to drive afely", director Mary Williams ays that every day 10 people ie on the roads. "There's obody to blame; there can be o public inquiry," she adds. "If ie all take social responsibility y improving the way we drive, yen if it's just by putting our lobile phone onto voice mail, len lives can be saved." Also at the iaunch were relatives of those killed in road traffic accidents. Janet Haliiwell, whose husband Stephen was killed when a speeding truck with defective brakes ploughed into his car, urged drivers to think of others: "Lorry drivers should not th;rik of themselves as being in control of the road just because they are in a larger vehicle.

"They should obey speed limits and make sure their vehicles are maintained and serviced regularly."

Last year's Department of Transport research revealed that speed was a contributory factor in almost one-third of all collisions. Excessive speeding kills around 1,200 people a year and injures 100,000 more.


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